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Deering Alaska Map

Explore Deering, Alaska, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Deering, Alaska

How to Use This Deering, Alaska Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Deering, Alaska. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Alaska or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Deering.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Deering
State	Alaska (AK)
County	Northwest Arctic
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Alaska Time (America/Nome)

Latitude	66.069488
Longitude	-162.764572
Population	182
Density	14.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	99736
Area Code	907
School District	Northwest Arctic Borough School District

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About Deering, Alaska

Deering is a locality in Northwest Arctic, Alaska, United States. It is a small community with a population of 182. The population density is 14.0 people per km². Deering is located at 66.0695°N, 162.7646°W. It observes the Alaska Time (America/Nome) timezone. Deering is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 99736.

Deering occupies a vast, quiet expanse of inland tundra where the earth stretches toward a horizon defined by the distant, rugged silhouette of Mount Foster. It lies 435.1 miles west-northwest of College, AK (from College, AK: bearing 288°T), and is situated 57.0 miles south of Kotzebue. The Inmachuk River carves a serpentine path through the permafrost, its waters reflecting the pale, shifting light of a subarctic sky that seems to press down with an immense, unyielding weight. To the east, the landscape transitions into the wild, sweeping reaches of the Bering Land Bridge National Preserve, a terrain where the wind carries the scent of lichen and cold stone. Twelve miles out, the surface of Sullivan Lake remains a solitary, glassy eye in the middle of the scrub, mirroring the flight of ravens that cross the silence of the plains.

Deering exists as a place of deliberate endurance, where the rhythm of the year is dictated by the turning of the seasons and the cycle of the land. Life in Deering is shaped by a history of resilience, with the local economy rooted in the traditional practices that have sustained families across generations in this harsh, interior environment. The people move with the steady, measured pace of those who understand the scale of the wilderness, finding beauty in the way the twilight deepens the color of the moss and the tundra grasses to a bruised, velvet purple. Here, the modern world arrives in the hum of a bush plane, a fleeting sound that serves only to emphasize the profound, enduring stillness of the interior.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 16.8 mi, 180° S · 2.7M acres
Bering Land Bridge National Park and Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 16.8 mi, 180° S
Chamisso Island Refuge (State Conservation Area) — 25.9 mi, 069° E
Trail Creek Caves (Historic Ruins) — 26.6 mi, 224° SW
Chamisso Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 27.5 mi, 066° NE · 418 acres
Selawik National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 50.8 mi, 029° NE · 5.4M acres
Kotzebue Administrative Site (National Wildlife Refuge) — 57.0 mi, 005° N · 1 acres
Fair Grounds (Local Park) — 57.2 mi, 005° N
Park (Local Park) — 57.5 mi, 005° N
Ball Park (Local Recreation) — 57.7 mi, 005° N
Cape Krusenstern National Monument (National Monument) — 67.7 mi, 000° N · 1.3M acres
Noatak National Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 71.9 mi, 009° N · 6.5M acres

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